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N April 4, 1922, a modest paragraph in the Russian daily press announced the
hours at which the three newly-elected secretaries of
DY TOTE VISitting On
"HUSH! HUSH! WHISPER WHO DARES! CHRISTOPHER CHURCHILL IS SAYING HIS PRAYERS
World Copyright. By arrangement with Dally Herald.
STALIN'S TO POWER
By Leonard Schapiro
the All-Russian Communist tary, all these men and Party would receive callers, many more had been hound-
of a
1922.
10.
The
By
Fence
Nathaniel Gubbins
"Higher throw are foreshadowed to the next Budget. Fuel restric- tions are expected to be eased, In the spring," From the Newon, ·
W
E
who live cuckoo-land Hail the coming
spring
Blossoms bright on either
hand
Loud the birds will sing April Budget, April rain
Higher taxes duo The more you earn the less
you gain
Cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo,
We who live in cuckoo-land'
Gladly greet the sun.
Light and warmth no longer
banned
Now the winter's done Now you need no fire bright
Fires bro your due Throw on the coals, switch
-the light
Cuckoo, cuckoo cuckoo,
We who live in cuckoo-land
On an April day
Walk on Sunday, hand
hand
nil After all," pour "alimming diet pa't made a lot of dif- ference, Mabel
The soldier, weary from the hard battle, needs soft embraces and the sòlsco," of s woman's
arms. There.
Ow. Mu stomach, Mabel. You're sitting on my stomach
How soft and silvery are the grey hairs fringing the high head, as bare and austere as a noble mountain, How.grim and soldierly the rough, grey móds- tache. I think I shall bite your
car,
Oh, no, Mabel. Not that. Let me get up, please. I murd phone the doctor.
The doctor? Is my warrior Jurt then?
A
I'll say he is. But I don't want to see the doctor. I want him to see you
Purity drive
0.33
Indian
CCORDING to
newspaper, The Current, more than 600 persons, "includ
ing millionaires and multi- on millionaires" supported a purity drive in April 1950 by taking a solemn oath not to adulterate food, counterfelt currency, obtain false ration cards, forge signa- travel with-
in
Watch the lamba at play Not for us the roasted meat
Not for us the slaw Wo subsidise what we can't
eat
Cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo,
Home is the
soldier
At the Party Congress in 1922, the delegates still dared
A woman writing to a news to bo openly critical of the Con- tral Committee, and actually
psychiatrist says: "Men, of Bo and over me in their prime outvoted it
pro-
and need love and passion even that three
Thelt posal
more than young man. critics
can make should
middle-aged wives beverest
them happy if they want to. TT is evening in Bide-A-Wee. unions and among the peasan-
offence has been that they com- that any free trade union elee plained to the Communist Inter-The middle-aged Engilsh wife try. (Zinoviev in 1921 admitted expelled from the Party, Their
هار
a of
be
For heaven's sake, Mabel. You're strangling me.
All day I've waited for this
moment, my precious, my own.
Aures, accepts, tr
out tickets, or
for a
may
As the oath was taken year only some of the boys return next month to the
the old carefree days of forgery and bribery; the rest will
report to a committee of public morals to give an account of their be- haviour during the past twelve months and be invited to renew the oath.
You say you have not forged a signature for a whole year?
Well, just one. Only one Title dignature:
One little signature on a big choque?
Yes, but only one ittle jorgery.
This is not according to your oath.
Before the oath I forged sig- natures every day. Look how I have improved,
How
about counterfeit cur
In a whole year I have made only one Witic note. Just one.
A big denomination?
**
The biggest, But only one note. Before the oath I made them day and night. How wicked I was then. Any false ration cards?
Just one for 'myself. Bafore the oath I used to get one for my wife. But not now, I am reformed.
Among the names was that ed to their deaths as tra- tion would give a 95 percent national of the treatment which has read the above, The middle- rency?
newcomer, Joseph tors, leaving Stalin as the victory to anti- Communist, they were receiving in
In Soviet aged English busband has ar- Russia. Such "Indiscipline" called rived home from the City. As Stalin, the General Secre- undisguised autocrat of all moderate Socialist parties).
for the sternest measures, and be stands in the hall powerful Russia. It was no accident. tary. To the public at large
Kronstadt Mutiny the best man for the unsavoury arms are flung round his neck. task was Stalin. There is nothing (or to those few outside the This, Stalin's first really
Darling. discontented to suggest that his appointment Yet, had the small Communist Party important appointment, cer-
Mabel, whatever are you who were interested) this tainly put into
his hands Bolsheviks paused to think, they in April 1922 as General Secre
might have recalled that as far tary was otherwise than with
doing? name was little known in all the weapons he needed to back as 1902 Lenin had already. Lenin's full approval.
Darling. I love you. I love consolidate his own per- formulated his Party policy: the Where Molotov had falled, you.
disciplined
leadership, Stalin before long succeeded. sonal supremacy by eli- small Next to Lenin, who had minating his personal rivals. the obedient rank and file, im- The party of obedient automata
alltit obedience to the Party
which he built up by a system by then almost retired from But the emergence of the fine, the surrender of all personal of espionage, terror and control man judgment. Now, in 1920, having of key appointments, was the public life, the best known dictatorship of one figures in the revolution and over the Party was an in- followed Lenin to the violent realisation in practice of Lenin's in the civil war were evitable consequence of the victory-of-a-small minority over dream of 1003. The
great majority, they revolt veterans of the revolution wha
Stalin's against elevation.
found, too late, that control of So far as the Socialist parties were concerned, their opposite party machine gave him all the power he needed to brand and ion was to dictatorship as such. criticism as indiscipline, While they were able to voice indiscipline as treason. Their their opinions, during the period fate was predetermined on April tral Committee elected at
of what was known, in spite of
Igen, 1822, 11th Party Congress in 1022 the frequent arrests, the rigged marked the end of a bitter elections, and the closing down struggle inside the Party, It of their entire press, as that of "legal oppositor all Social- they de- had begun in 1920,
manded freedom
Their demands war Ist The
the civil
I ailes out the weary end of found the Russian Communist echoed Party in a state of ferrent, crustry. The
the
many
system
You're-not-Intoxicated,-are-
Trotsky, Zinoviev, Bukharin, circumstances of Stalin's ed against the main factor revoltewears which followed passion. How handsome you look
Kamenev and Rykov. Fif- teen years after Stalin's ap pointment as General Secre-
Along the Road of Progress
Joseph Privetly an Englishman, was the discoverer of oxygen. But his researches also extended in other directions. Iț washe, who originated a method for combining carbon dioxide' gas with water--thus establishing
the basis of effervescent drinks of today.
in Watson's modern bottling plant,, carbonation is carried out on machines of the highest complexity. But thò dă- -cellence of Watson's beverages, partly finda-lts-origin in the pioneering of Guch montras Priostley.
WATSON'S
Alocated
RS
Bitter Struggle The appointment of the new General Secretary by the Cen-
the
in that victory,
The ruthless dictatorship of the mutiny gave concrete expres- small Central Committee headed sion to these demands. by Lenin had been tolerated
in
No Betrayal Trotsky and his followers have laboured to show Stalla
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Malevolent malevolent intriguer who betray- ed Lenin's policy,
and Intriguer he may be, but there was no betrayal of Lenini Lenin was raced with clear Lenin believed that a small while the struggle for survival
could minority had the right to dictate Instod.
But after the defeat ternetives: either he
in the over the vast majority in the of all armed opponents of the vleid to the demand Bolshevik dictatorship, the rank country and medify the rigours country. To follow this course a od obedient and file of the Party began to of his dictatorship, or he could disciplined band
preserve that dictatorship by conspirators was needed, rather assert themselves.
restoring strict discipline in his than a parliament of men free to They complained that all Forty, and by quelling the op voleo their opinions and to Stalin created this local initiative in the Party was position throughout the coun- criticise. being stifled and that they were try to his rule with the aid of Party; but he created it to Lenin's
desku expected to carry
out orders increased terror. He unhesitat- des without having any Bay In ingly chose the latter course, Party policy. They criticised the growing bureaucracy, the selflatincas and corruption Party lenders, and their in- difference to the interests of the workers.
Peasants Rose
chicanery
of
New Policy
and by force, :were' angst Walls
you, Mabel? Yes, I am. Intoxicated with.
your bowler, worn lite helmet, holding your umbrella like a sword. My soldier home from the City wars.
1
Now you've knocked my glasaca of. Really, Mabel, I think you ought to lie down and take things quietly. First I shall sit. But not quietly. I shall sit on your knee. Come my hero.
No, Mabel, not on my knee. Please. You know I have: sciatica.
St there, my warrior.
Have you travelled anywhere without a ticket?
Longest
Only on the journeys. Before the oath I travelled without everywhere.
Bribes?
Just one. Big?
tickets
· - Enormous, but only one, Would you like to renew your oath?
Only one part of it. Other- wise I am ruined, 4. Which part?
I swear a most solemn oath
I will not commit suicide.
-London Express Bérbice)
Buying boycott spreading
From NEWELL ROGERS
and
Senators
salary
Power Monopoly against them and promise to let AN ATOMIC alarm clock
The system which exists today is the logical outcome of Lenin's plan. The toll of deaths which
NEW YORK. and red | Morocco binding. Price Stalin's rise to absolute power exacted is the price paid by the OUSEWIVES tempers 100 dollars-35
Hare rising in America His policy in 1021 was at the thousands, who, in October 1017;
PRESIDENT TRUMAN ex-President Hoover favour it time and has been ever since were duped or hypnolised by portrayed, by Soviet historians Lenin into believing that they and food prices are begin. Bill to make ex-President-life-
ning to fall.
time members of the Senato and their echoes in the Wost, were creating the dictatorship
In Pittsburg steelworkers' without a vote, but with full as designed to save Soviet the proletariat What they in
£35. They resented the fact that Russia from counter-revolution. fact created was the dictatorship wives are organistak a barcost pay. The Presidente
higherhood meat. of the Communist Party,; palpad
They C85,700 appointment. from the contre But it was not counter-revolu
toll
the butchers it, is not to Party organs was replacing tion which then threatened the
'the' butcherá know when the goes off when it contacts what local election. The small Com Communist, dictatorship, but or munist minorities, who control dinary, moderate trade union
Socialism The The subsequent course of boyoust started over amount of radio Acuity;if Led the trado: unions by and
Armies Soviet history was inherent in Aho Idos threatens to spread. is set tor. It rings and flashes h
In the Mid-West whent prices ATTUFUL Britain and weaken Tho housewives, clariouring for more power and had been defeated by Novem- this single fact. Lenin xoght for greater independence from ber 1820. The threat of Alled have reversed this course i 1921, blizards, and the farmers in three-year contract with Her
Intervention no longer existed, but it would have cost him his creased acreage for food com- hert Wilcox, Michael winding central Party control;;
Hebine
to send prices down will resist Hollywood's lure But the lacontent with the The new polley began early own monopoly of power. Party leadership within
the in 1921 with the wholesale im- would have had to concede the Wheat is down 14 cents a bushel after completing his next plea Party was nothing compared to Prisonment of the Socialists still right of participation in govem in the Kansas city markot fure with Greer Garson. He is the hatred of Campeinist,ruld at large and the fint suppres- ment to Sochillst parties ready The blizzards, with inalature going home to make a ploture? outside the Partyshe, peasants sion of the Socfatiat purtles, and anxious to share in it for the purched great platas, in which Anna Neagle will
moan, a blizzard of grain
play Florence Nightingala,
HOLLYWOOD * cinema rose in fijurandalon or The next stop was the reorgAA
harvest.
booked a double bill of All Agriculture Departament bookcoda etimates this year plantings about Evo" and "Sunset Boule
for the day aft million vard"
attant th of key crops at 830
Motion Picture Academyrthose dare4,000,000 above at the best actress of the rest
Rice, wheat, madre, and to the booking was made in the tracco forecast are up
expectation that either Betta KingWashington tho fariners: Davis or Gloria Swanson, stara r are joining, business and labour of the two films, would be tolgypore price, and wage coux chosen.
Red Army the
with dimetty put
mained against set
Estion of the Communist Party At the 10th Party Con- In March 1927: Lenti of the Party throw me oliminated from the poc
itively moderato
Many years parlier, before Trotsky joined Lenin's party, ho bad pointed out that the dictator wship of a central committed is bound in the end, to becount the ofctatorship of one man. Alain proved the truth of Trotsky's Consciat. For the strongest 'rorin
(data forntilɔ that!
to consolidate
.